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partitioning a hardware RAID

partitioning a hardware RAID

2005-06-02 - By Warren Lamboy

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Thanks to you both. I will follow your advice. - Warren

-- --Original Message-- --
From: redhat-list-bounces@(protected)
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@(protected)] On Behalf Of Mike Burger
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:24 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: partitioning a hardware RAID

On Wed, June 1, 2005 7:19 pm, Ed Wilts said:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 04:57:57PM -0400, Warren Lamboy wrote:
>> "fdisk -l" tells me that I have the following device:
>>
>> Disk /dev/sda: 733.4 GB, 733468426240 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sector/track, 89172 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>>
>> /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell
Utility
>> /dev/sda2 * 6 18 104422+ 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda3 19 17580 141066765 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda4 17581 17834 2040255 f Win95
Ext'd
>> (LBA)
>> /dev/sda5 17581 17834 2040223+ 82 Linux swap

>> 2. My reading of the table above indicates that the swap partition
>> overlaps with the extended partition. Am I interpreting this
>> correctly? If I am, is this arrangement normal? Is it desirable?
>> Does it cause any potential problems?
>
> That's normal - don't worry about it. You can have only 4 primary
> partitions on a disk.

The only potential problem, that I see, is that the current swap
partition takes up all of the extended partition.

He may have to remove the swap partition and the extended partition, and
then create a new extended partition, into which he can then recreate
the swap partition and any new partitions he needs.

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